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MosheFeingold

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10. I am not suprised by your post
Tue Dec 3, 2019, 03:55 PM
Dec 2019

But I am disappointed.

The truth is that Israeli Arabs (generally either Muslim or Nazarene) have full rights of Israeli citizenship.

The one exception is that they could volunteer for the IDF, but were not drafted. Many join voluntarily, however, to defend their home against the radical Islamists who run the PA. In fact, so many Nazarene Arabs joined that they petitioned (and were granted) the "right" to be drafted, just like everyone else. (The Druze Arabs always insisted on being subject to the draft.)

The Arabs, as a group, have the highest educational attainment in Israel. The Nazarene Arabs are, per capita, the wealthiest demographic in Israel. To say they outstrip their radical cousins in the PA and Jordan is the understatement of the century.

Sure, there are some bigots in each and every group. So what? That's everywhere. In the PA, the Nazarene Arabs were so religiously persecuted that most have left the PA, leaving Bethlehem as the only hold out, and it is rapidly shrinking. Certainly nothing like that is going on in Israel. Israel has wide open religious freedom and people are free to worship (or dismiss) HaShem as they see fit. There are robust laws against employment and other discrimination.

Anyway, as accused practitioners of apartheid, the Israelis are piss poor at it. The Arabs communities in Israel are flourishing.

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